Zantos:We don't complain when you southern lot talk. Maybe a few jeers about being posh, but apart from that we don't complain when you start adding extra 'r's that don't exist. I think it's just laziness, you know other cultures will adapt for you so you don't need to do anything. I hate southerners so much.

And that's the way it should be! *affects air of superiority* Oh, for the good old days of 1950's BBC announcements. Now, they spoke English! XD[1]

Neither? I go with "Eh-Scay-Pist" ("Uh-Scay-Pist" depending on how bothered I can be to move my jaw -either way the "S" is attached to the second syllable not the first). Pretty sure that's how the word is pronounced?I mean really? "Es-kay-pist"?

South-East Coast and Home Counties raised, and both my parents were English teachers at private schools so... pretty much how correct speech is defined.

I always thought of it (And have heard it said by some of the videos on this website) as the Ess-kay-pist, like the word "escape", then "ist". This website seems to be about games and movies, seen as forms of escapism or escape from reality, which is where I thought the name came from. Also, I always thought of Houdini as an escape artist.

Scorched_Cascade:Eh? Es-kah-pist is a thing? I, being from South UK, pronounce it Es-kay-pist although the K is closer to a g making it "Ehz-(k/g)ahy-pissed"

and an old-ish thread I made where you can listen to some other posters pronounce it (there's a few posters dotted around saying it. Somewhere amongst all the Lovecraft reading, Poe reading, singing, questioning of my motives and rampant paranoia that is :) )

Ninjas. Damn.Oh well, ya I never would imagine anyone not pronouncing it es-KAY-pissed. If my memory banks are accurate, Yahtzee, Bob, Jim, Graham and them all pronounce it that way. Though the other pronunciation does have a kinda sexy exotic vibe to it.

This question comes up way too often. It's pronounced eh-SKAY-pist. That's not how I personally pronounce it, but rather it's the correct pronunciation. It isn't just the name of a website, it's a word.